Nightshade

​​24 years ago - Eve Eden is born in the land of the Nightshades to Queen Maureen.

​21 years ago - 3-year-old Eve's mother flees the creature Incubus, bringing her children to earth.

​17 years ago - 7-year-old Eve is brought back to Nightshade by her mother. Incubus kidnaps her brother & mortally wounds Maureen. Eve promises her, as Maureen uses the last of her energy to send her home, that she would someday return to save her brother.

​10 years ago - 14-year-old Eve begins to learn to use her shadow powers.

​7 years ago - 17-year-old Eve discovers her ability to teleport through Nightshade.

2 years ago - 22-year-old Eve returns to Nightshade with the help of the Shadowpact. She discovers that Incubus has possessed her brother. Enchantress's dark personality manifests & possesses Eve. The dark entities possessing Eve & her brother attempt to mate. Eve overcomes her possession & saves her brother, and together they return to earth.

​1 year ago - 23-year-old Eve participates in the 5th Shadowpact, forging the spells that allowed Maggeddon to manifest in our reality where he can be stopped by the collected heroes of Earth. She is immolated within the spells they cast, but dies saving the world.

Nightshade has had a pretty odd career. She was one of the Charlton characters, created as a partner and love interest for Captain Atom. She was acquired, along with the rest of Charlton, by DC, and was the source material for the Watchmen character Silke Spectre (although Silk Spectre's actual appearance probably borrowed a lot more from Black Canary.)

The bulk of her comic appearances were with the Suicide Squad, where she had an entirely different look and characterization. She was a femme fatale secret agent with long hair and a black and purple catsuit. Oddly, this is the characterization that first introduced her backstory as a lost princess of the land of nightshades. It's a very singular idea, and it informs almost every other depiction of the character, but it ran almost completely contrary to this particular version of her.

Our version of the Suicide Squad is deliberately avoiding non-villainous members other than the team handler, so we're skipping her tenure with the team. Besides, it would be very weird trying to take this lost shadow princess character and somehow explain the stretch of time when she cosplayed as the Baroness. Her magical origins are very unique, and we've focused on that as the crux of her character.

The story of her return to nightshade, where she was possessed by June Moon's dark persona, is a very cool one. Even though it happened while both characters were in the Suicide Squad, we can easily move it over into their shared time in the Shadowpact.